Co-founder of Xiaomi Corporation, De Liu (MS 15 Industrial Design) has received the 2022 ArtCenter Alumni Award for Distinguished Mid-Career Achievement. Liu has deployed the strategic thinking he cultivated during his time in the Graduate Industrial Design (Grad ID) program at ArtCenter to usher a ...
Illustrator Medar de la Cruz spoke about his work and ArtCenter experience as part of IdentificarX exhibition programming celebrating Latina/e/o/x ArtCenter alumni.
Navigating Google DesignStorm: A Journey of Creativity and Collaboration At ArtCenter, we embrace the remarkable power of industry partnership to prepare students for success. Vaish Prabhakaran (Grad ID) recapped a Google DesignStorm that was a journey of creativity and collaboration. In jus...
Why AxS Episode 1 Rosetta Mission: How an illustrator helped NASA-JPL land on a comet Welcome to the Why AxS, ArtCenter’s podcast featuring brilliant scientific and artistic minds ponder the big why's that come with being a tiny part of this universe. Our first episode, How to Land on a Com...
JOY AND OPTIMISM IN EAGLE ROCK: ILLUSTRATION ALUM PATRICK HRUBY SHARES A STUDIO SPACE FILLED WITH ARTCENTER HISTORY Walk into the high-ceilinged Los Angeles art studio of artist, designer, Illustration alum and instructor Patrick Hruby (BFA 2010), and one thing is clear: Hruby loves bold color. A ...
The trans part of transmedia is that the designer transforms and transcends media categories, and by so doing, creates new media categories.
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CHANGE/MAKERS: Matthew RolstonPhotographer, Director and Creative Director Ever since Andy Warhol hired then-ArtCenter student Matthew Rolston to shoot a portrait of Steven Spielberg for Interview magazine, Rolston has continued to redefine the modern meaning of glamour and what it is to be a celeb...
BEAUTY OF THE FALL: 2017 TEDxACCD FACES THE TOPIC OF FAILURE We don't know everything.We aren't perfect.We make mistakes,But we embrace themAnd make it work.We are a metamorphosis of X.X = the unknown. In other words, we all fail, and then try again. For the ArtCenter students organizing the Coll...
Designing Cars Fit for Bond, James Bond: Meet Automotive Designer Alex Alexiev ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Alex Alexiev(BS 12 Transportation Design) Designer,McLaren: I was working on the interior for the McLarens brand new car the 720S, which launched in Geneva. Currently, Im w...
Zoë Glenn Hart-Wagstaff levels up with Brand Design and Strategy MDes Graphic designer paves path as a design leader and community builder with master’s degree from new online Master of Design in Brand Design and Strategy program Since childhood, Zoë Glenn Hart-Wagstaff wanted to g...
Color Coordinated: Meet Besame Founder Fergus Hernandez ArtCenter: You co-founded Bsame with your wife Gabriela Hernandez (BFA 89 Photography) how did that come about? Fergus Hernandez (BFA 90 Photography) CFO/Co-founder, Bsame Cosmetics: Weve worked together since meeting at ArtCenter in the late...
Kevin Bethune is founder and Chief Creative Officer of innovation think-tank, dreams • design + life. Elizabeth Bayne: In ArtCenter’s 90-year history, there have only been 300 black alumni — what's your reaction to that? Kevin Bethune (MS '12 GradID): Mixed emotions. There are so ...
Sara Khoury is an accomplished design leader in Silicon Valley who currently serves as director of user experience design at Google
Dieter Rams Urges Graduates Toward Responsible Design Ethos “Tomorrow’s world will be designed by the design students of today—by you—and while this is a great opportunity, this is also a great challenge and a great responsibility,” Dieter Rams told graduating ArtCente...
Change Lab Episode 53 Google’s Ivy Ross on reimagining the life you’re meant to live As Google’s vice president of hardware design, Ivy Ross is breaking new ground in the physical world for a trillion-dollar company synonymous with building tools for navigating the virtual one. S...
From Risk To Rihanna: Meet Fashion Illustrator Alum Bijou Karman ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Bijou Karman (BFA 14 Illustration), Artist and illustrator: Im working on paintings for an upcoming solo show at Nucleus Portland. Dont worry about finding your style while in sch...
Change Lab Podcast Episode 23 Rebeca Mndez on dissolving boundaries between art and design and connecting with our animal nature Rebeca Mndez is an artist, designer, educator and ArtCenter alumna whose creative practice defies the bounds of traditional disciplines or descriptions. Her pioneering ...
4x4 Gallery: Alumnae work in which a yarn installation anda still life feast meet mouth jewelry and llamas wearing sweatbands Pae White Last year, world-renowned mixed media artist and Graduate Art alumna Pae White (MFA 91) installed Spacemanship, a 45-foot-tall site-specific work for the expanded ...
Astronomy Fans Go Cosmic ArtCenter and Caltech Scientists Unite for Space Discovery at AstroFest For more than 100 years, brainy residents in Pasadenanamed by civic leaders as the City of Astronomyhave fueled tons of scientific innovation. And thats why almost a dozen Pasadena organizations and i...
Lighting the Past Alumna Tahnee Cracchiola brings antiquity to life, one photograph at a time Its a crisp December morning at the Getty Villa, the Malibu branch of the J. Paul Getty Museum. Home to one of the worlds finest collections of antiquities, the Villa features architecture modeled after a...
Icon Worship Photographer and alum Matthew Rolston Leads Tour through the Getty Museums Icons of Style Exhibition This past September, Matthew Rolstona photographer and director who has created countless iconic portraits of celebrities including Madonna, Jay Z, Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift for publi...
Shooting for the Sky: Williamson Gallery Exhibition Focuses on Humanity's Shifting Understanding of the Heavens NOTE: Due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, SKY is not currently available for viewing. We hope, however, that you enjoy this essaywith accompanying imageryby the exhibitions curator. An i...
Alumna Loris Lora: Safe and Sound andnot slowing down An artist whose work has appeared in numerous publications, includingThe Boston Globe,Los Angeles Times,The New Yorker and the The Wall Street Journal, Illustration alumna Loris Lora (BFA 14) spent countless childhood hours drawing. But it wasn...